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In all my years of biology courses I have not once ever heard that demographic correlation either.Two diseases that disproportionately affect POC and QPOC? AIDS yes but childhood cancer? I've never heard of childhood cancer being more common in them.
I remember back in I'm pretty sure high school AP biology, my teacher talking about how there are a few cancers that do disproportionately affect HIV/AIDS sufferers, or people who have otherwise suppressed immune systems from other disorders, but as far as I recall, the whole point is, they affect you because your immune system is suppressed, and can be used as "AIDS-defining disorders". Unless we're talking the kids in Africa that are born with HIV from their moms, those are not exactly "childhood cancers", and they sure don't have much to do with being gay either if that's the case, obviously.
EDIT: She might be correlating the fact that in the States especially some races/ethnicities are at higher risk for some cancers but...again...that's got pretty much nothing to do with being gay, or AIDS, or anything like that, AFAIK.
EDIT: She might be correlating the fact that in the States especially some races/ethnicities are at higher risk for some cancers but...again...that's got pretty much nothing to do with being gay, or AIDS, or anything like that, AFAIK.
Then again, Staph DID admit to failing biology and that's why she decided on social work, after all, did she not?
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